Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35, NUMBER 206

EUROPE’S ONE SAFE WAY OUT

By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, Former British Premier. Copyright 1913. by United Feature Syndicate; copyright in Great Ttritian bv London Chronicle- copyritht in Australia by Australian Press Association: exclusive world rights held by United Feature Syndicate; reproduction in whole or in part prohibited. MARSHAL FOCH once told me that he considered the German army of 1914 the finest army the world ever saw in numbers, organization, training and equipment. AVhat set that army in motion ? Much has been written and spoken as to the origin of the great war, as to who and what was responsible for so overwhelming a cataclysm. No one ever believed it was the assassination of the royal archduke. Some said it was the working out of a Pan-German scheme to rule the earth. Some contended it was German fear of the growing power of Russia. The great French marshal’s dictum is the real explanation. Unless due weight is given this outstanding fact, the dip-

Mil tO. IS GIVEN Offl TO SELL ELEGTRIE PIH ill IMMS Decision Will Mean That City Is to Have Three Utilities Supplying* Current West Tenth Street Plant to Expand. Authority was granted today to the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company by the public service commission to improve its power plant and establish transmission lines in Indianapolis for the purpose of supplying power to traction lines and to the public generally. The order, in effect, creates a new electric utility in Indianapolis. One of the principal purposes of the plans for enlargement of the power facilities of the company as granted by the petition

ia the supplying of powor to th< Indianapolis Street Railway Company. The power problem has long hampered the development of the street railway system, according to officials of the' company. The local company p.ar.s to build a number of substations in the city for the purpose of assisting In the distribution of power. liOoks to Future The commission found that “the combined present capacity of all the plants engaged in supplying current for light, heat and power in the city of Indianapolis, while adequate to meet the present demand, including that of the street railway company. Is not adequate to the increased demand the street railway company is making to supply additional substations which It Is about to construct within the city of Indianapolis or to provide power to the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction Company and other interurban companies which they are seeking to have 3'ipplied by the petitions.” The commission also found there are not adequate facilities for meeting emergencies due to breaking down of machinery or other causes. The commission held that the improvement of the i>resent West Tenth Bt. etation is the most practical means by which the demand for more electricity can be met. The station would supply power not only to the street railway company and Interurban companies, but to a number of towns and cities surrounding Indianapolis. It was pointed out that the improvement of the power plant could not be financed unless the company be given the right to operate as a utility, the right now granted it. Order Is Opposed Opposition to the granting of authority to the company to carry out its plans was expressed by the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and the Merchants Heat and Light Company. The city of Indianapolis favored th- petition.

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iii sioais II feu of m Prospect of Week-end Behind Bars Causes Collapse. Faced with the prospect of passing Saturday and Sunday in the Marion i County jail, Clara Pierson, 23, of 433 S. Illinois St., collapsed today. She was remove ! to the city hospital. She was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Pearl Bolchelor, 227 S. Illinois St., charging her with the theft of a silk quilt valued at $35. Physicians said Miss Pierson was in poor physical condition. She fainted in the matron's office and then collapsed a second time as Sergt. Erooks was taking her to the jail. When Miss Pierson was arrested the warrant was marked “in court ” She was taken before Judge Delbert O. Wilmelh and the case continued on request of the State until Monday. This meant that the woman must give bond or go to jail. This custom of marking warrants “in court” and having cases continued to Monday has been used, it is said, by officers who wished to avoid appearing in court Saturday night. TAKES HIS IN PAPER When D. D. Froelich, proprietor of a meat market at 2915 E. Tenth St., stepped into an adjoining store to use a telephone today a thW entered his market and stole all the paper money oat of the cash register. It amounted to $162. A quantity of silver was untouched.

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lomatic muddle of July, 1914, becomes unintelligible. Were it not that the German army was more perfect and more potent than either the French or Russian army—were it not that every German officer was convinced that the German military machine was superior to all its rivals—there would have been no war, whatever emperors, diplomatists or statesmen said, thought or intended. Incentive to ‘Ambitious Patriotism’ All nations have their ambitions, but they are not tempted to impose them upon their neighbors if the hazard is too obviously great. But a sense of overpowering force behind national aims is a constant incitement to ruthlessness, to greed and to ambitious patriotism. The more one examines in growing calm the events of July, 1914. the more one is impressed with the shrinking of the nominal rulers of the attacking empires as they approached

First Baby of 1923, His Mother and Times Prize Cup

The lndian.i polls Tim es gave'him the silvei j|g, in * Xo time was lost in p utting forth the prize |jj Sanders home informed The Times of the baby’s mt t r' " i m v \ V■ I * '%Aj i \ \Wjr i A ♦ ■ \ m*. % - r , ** f ' / , /

Downtown Traffic Toll Cut by Safety Campaign

Death is taking a vacation from his post in downtown Indianapolis. So for this year there has been no serious traffic accident on downtown streets. Rost year there were sixty-

To Motorists: Don't speed. Keep your ej'es front. Watch the traffic officers. Don't forget that on the Washington St traffic towers a red light means for only street ears to move. Wait for the green or amber light. Be especially careful on rainy nights. Remember that not. all pedestrians are fleet footed or quickwitted.

ICBNSiSTENCI' MIKE PLAINT Husband Says Wife Could Not Be Suited, in Plea. Inconsistency in her quarreling was one of the reasons assigned by Henry A. Sutton, 58, of 4414 E. New York St., a contractor, in a suit filed today for divorce from Mrs. Christina B. Sutton, Petersburg, 11. F. D. No. 2. The connubial arguments lasted fifteen years, he stated, and started about the time he went to make his will. First, sho quarreled because he wanted to sell the farm and move to town, after agreeing to it, saying ‘‘lie wanted to deprive her of a home,” the suit alleged. After he cancelled the bargain to please her, she quarreled and called him ‘‘vile names" and insisted ha sell at onee, he charged. When the buyer finally got around again sho quarreled and made him pay her one-third interest in the farm on spot in cash before sho would sign the deed, the complaint averred, averred. And to top off the grievances bis wife, ealled him and his family “the crazy Buttons,” the contractor said in his complaint. POLICE HEAR CRASH The glass of L he front door of Mo- ! Neill's dry goods store. 1504 Roosevelt Ave., was broken by a burglar who was frightened away early today. Patrolmen McCormack and Teague heard the breaking of the glass. They hurried to the store. Nothing was stolen.

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one traffic fatalities in Marion County. A distinct drop in the number of automobile mishaps was noted today by Dr. Paul F. Robinson, county coroner. Ihi attributed the improvement to the campaign started a few weeks ago against spoeding and jaywalking. Records in bis office show that since the educational drive was begun, Indianapolis has gained much wisdom as to the perils of defying time and space. "Pedestrians,” said Dr. Robinson, "are beginning to look around instead of strutting across the street without looking to right or left. And motorists appear to have kept their feet a little nearer to the brake than previously. "instead of disregarding all precautions and seeking the quickest route without thought of safety to self or others, both those afoot and those In machines seem to have acquired a realization of the dangers lurking at a busy corner. “However, the campaign must not stop now. Ts every one would bear constantly In mind a few precautions, traffic accidents would be cut to a minimum. Carelessness on the part of p destrians Is usually found to be TWO STOLEN, ONE FOUND Two automobiles were stolen last night. The owners were. Pula'- B. Steele, 337 N. Irvington Avo., and R. A. Welch, 4317 E. Washington St. An automobile owned by J. W. Atkins, 1321 N. Meridian St., was found today by police at Capitol Ave. and Maryland St.

14y MILTON BRONNER Xlf A Staff Correspondent riTJIK thing that differentiates I the auto-suggestion clinics held by Monsieur Emile Couo from any clinics in the world to which suffering people go is this: We laugh with Coue and at ourselves. Lots of us come here with aches and pains, hut, somehow, Coue, the magician, drives away the tears and makes the smiles come. I think one of the reasons for this is the simple humanness of this man. He can reprove when reproof is necessary, but he prefers to joke with us and to make us joke, too. One day when I was there an intellectual woman, after hearing him explain how ancient a thing autosuggestion is, said rathor cattily: “In other words, you have discovered the moon.” "No, madame," h replied, with

the abyss, and with the relentless driving onward of the military organization behind these terror-stricken dummies. Navies are essentially defensive weapons. No capital in the world can be captured by navies alone, and no country can be annexed or invaded hv a fleet. But armies are grabbing machines. A transcendent army has always led to aggression. No country can resist the lure of an easy triumph paraded before its eyes for two successive generations. “Must Disarm Striking Forces’’ The inference is an obvious one. To insure peace on earth, nations must disarm their striking forces. Without disarmament pacts, treaties and covenants are of no avail. They arc tli£ paper currency of diplomacy. That is the reason why all friends of peace arc filled with disquiet when they see nations still arming and competing in armies whilst trusting to (Turn so I’age 2)

The baby shown in the photograph does not snow It. but the cup his moth - is holding be ongs to him. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sanders, 2179 Fountain St, The Indianapolis Times gave him the silver baby cup because he was the first baby born ir Marion County in 1923. He was born when the N'ew Year was only thirty seconds < Id. Xo time was lost in putting forth the prize winner's claim to the cup. Before S a. m. Mon lay the physician who asisted the tork at the Sanders home informed The Times of the baby’s arrival. The stork visited many Marion County homes on Xew Year's day, but lie honored the San den by making his first visit there.

the cause of fatalities, but motorists also ure frequently to blame." The coroner gave advice to motorists and pedestrians. READ IT AND REMEMBER.

To Pedestrians: Don’t Jay-walk. Watch the automobiles and street cars. Watch the traffic officers. Remember the red light on the tower means street cars, not you. On rainy days watch ymir step. Don’t duck under an umbrella when crossing the street. Remember that not all motor cars havev good brakes or good drivers.

EVELYN NESBIT ILL By United Press ATLANTIC CITY. N. J , Jan. 6. Evelyn Nesbit, former wife of Harry I-C. Thaw, who shot Stanfard White on the roof of Madison Square Garden on June 25, 1906, is critically ill of pleuro pneumonia in a private hospital here. Only her son Russell is permitted to see her. I READY FOR SUNDAY A thief entered the chicken coop of I Lewis W. Beasley, 3355 W. Michigan | St., early today and carried away fourteen young Rhode Island hens, four Plymouth Rock hens and a Rhode Island rooster. The chickens were valued at S4O.

Coue ‘Ca-Passes’ ’Em and Laughs Pains Away

fine dignity, "but I have learned how to teach you to walk by its light in your darkness.” Treating Rheumatism Over in a comer sits a huskylooking peasant woman in black. Her toil-worn hands show how she has labored beside her husband on their farm. She has trouble using her right arm: thinks she has "rheumatics.” Coue rapidly strokes the sleeve of her blouse, bidding her say after him —“Ca passe, en passe, eo passe.” “It is going away, it is going away, it is going away.” Only he wants her to say it so rapidly that it sounds like a big bee buzzing endlessly. Then Coue straightens himself. "How dqgs the arm feel now?" "Much better," “Hit me with your right flat.’*

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FOCH URGES SEIZURE OF RUHR CITY France Decides on Immediate Action—Germany Given Chance to Explain. By l nited Press PARIS, Jan. 6.—The council of ministers met with President Millorand today and decided to take immediate action against Germany. Exact methods of occupation have not been decided upon. Marshal Koch, is understood to favor .- more limit--**! scope*, confining occupation to seizure of Ksen, while sumo members of the Cabinet press for wiJer action. The reparations commission agreed to hoar on M. : : v tin <lerman explanation of failure to deliver the roouireii amount of coal before declaring her in default. tiro :t Britain will tak- part in the mooting and shout! the explanation be accepted trouble in the Rhineland Ruhr would be temporarily avoided. It "as predicted, however, that tiermany could not satisfactorily explain the defaults and that the French would continti -with their plans for enforcing payments. ENGLAND CALLS FOR TURK SHOWDOWN By United Press LAUSANNE. Jan. 6. —threat Britain, having withdrawn from the Paris reparations conference, called for a "showdown” at the Lausanne parley this afternoon. Marquis Ourzon, foreign minister and head of the British delegation, summoned a full session of the commission on capitulations for 4 o’clock, announcing it was for the purpose of hearing the Turks final word. Unless I smut Pasha, head of the Komal delegation presents a plan fully admitting the guarantees of safety for foreigners, not only Britain, but the United States insisted on, Curzon said the conference would end. WHITE HOUSE IS FIRE TRAP, OVERSEER DECLARES Appropriation Committee Sets Aside 925,000 for Repairs. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The White House is a fire trap, Colonel C. C. Sherlll, overseer of the executive mansion. reported today to the House Appropriations Committee. Sherill said the presidential home was "an easy time for any incendiary effort." The committee thereupon included $25,000 to start repair work on the structure. INDIAN SUIT STOLEN The thief who took a suitcase from the drug store of F. A. Stokes, 54S Indiana Ave., was equipped for a masquerade ball today. The suitcase contained an Indian costume.

She strikes him in the chest. / "Hit harder.” She almost knocks him down. Coue smilingly suggests sho now go home and hit her husband that way. “Oh, no, monsieur. He would hit back!” Playing Oiwbp of Tag Enter another type. She is Fronoh bourgeois, perhaps 65, in black, with her old-fashioned gold chain and locket around her throat. She has come in walking painfully, slowly by the aid of a cane. Monsieur Coue “ca-passes” her. Then he suggests she get up and try to walk. She looks for her cane, but Coue gives her his hand and like an ancient gallant in the time of King Louis, leads her serosa the room. "IPs like a minuet," ha^^airally.

SEIEBTIFIC BUTCH® OF HOODED MISTS IS REVEALED IN COURT Witnesses in Mer Rouge Murders Tell How Victims Were Crushed to Death After Being Tortured. rs By United Press COURTHOUSE, Bastrop, La., Jan. 6. —Coolly, scientifically, Watt Daniel and Thomas F. Richards were crushed to death by hooded terrorists, pathologists who examined the broken mutilated bodies testified today in the open hearing here. With barbarous ingenhitv and callous indifference, hands, heads and feet were wrenched from the bodies, Dr. Charles W. Duval and Dr. John A. Lanford testified. Scientific, means were used to break each arm in three places

and then the chest cavities of the helpless victim—one a World War veteran and the other his friend — were smashed in by "pressure applied from front and from back,” the witness declared. The most grewsome outrages in the pages of history were outdone that night behind the veil of dense foliage in a sheltered spot in the woodeu section near Mer Rouge after Daniel’s father had been brutally beaten and two others had been severely flogged by the hooded horror. The Spanish inquisitions. Turkish outrages, and tortures of Apaches in the '49 days were far less inhuman than the tragedy of that black night described in Louisiana's noted public hearing. Butchery Revolting Cloaked in the unemotional language of the man of science also was described a crude operation, a revolting butchery—which had been performed on Daniel before his life was crushed out. It was a story that evidently was charitable to the murderers. Rumors generally had credited the murderers to a rage of fury by one mob member who ha<l been unmasked as Daniel battled to free himself. The story had h-'en whispered about that after the unmasking Daniel and Richards had been shot down to prevent them exposing the man. But fin* physicians in their report, under the heading “pertinent comments.’’ declared: "The striking symmetry and character of the bone fractures and their relationship to the injuries surrounding soft tissues suggest that the body was subjected to some specially con-struct*-I device designed for inflicting punishment. Bodies Wired to Wheels Then the remains were wired to iron wheels and cast into Lake La Fourehe. The two reports are practically identical except that the crude operation performed on Daniel was not committed in the case of Richards. Much of the findings under “pertinent comments," are unprintable. In part the report says: "Body is that of a well developed and nourished white man. without head, feet and hands. It is noted that some of the bones of the extremities, principally the upper, are protruding through the fragments of the clothes and flesh.” Then i, described the operation performed on Daniels. "The tendons and ligaments about the stumps of the legs and forearms are ragged and uneven, as though they had been torn or pulled from their attachments.” the report continued. aft°r detailing the battered, broke condition of the body. Fract urcs Similar “The bon 3js of the body, particularly those of the extremities, are found fractured. The striking features of the fractures of the long bones are their character and similarity and symmetry These fractures regularly occur at the upper, middle and lower portions respectively ir each instance. Asa rule, they are equidistant and approximately three and one-half inches apart. The character of the fractures indicate that they are produced by a crushing force or one in which the force was applied simultaneously from more than one direction.” "The most of the ribs, together with the right clavicle and breast plate, are fractured and dislocated. The

“Now again, madame.” He gently drops her hand. “Now walk by yourself.” She does so. “Oh, but faster.” She Increases her speed. "Now walk after me and catch me.” Couo walks around a table, the old lady fast after him. Then she goes back to her chair, seemingly none the worse for this to her unheard-of exertion. - “Oh, one more exercise,” says ('‘one. He gives her the cane and tells her to walk and to carry it on her shoulder like a French soldier on the march. She does so. And there are women in the crowd who smile through tears at what seems a veritable miracle to 1 hem. k All except one old woman, whose

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ribs were broken loose and are fractured and dislocated. "The appearance and location of these fractures to the bones of the thoracic cage would indicate that the force was applied simultaneously upon the front and back of the torso. "The greater portion of the skull is missing." Just before the opening of the hear- | mg attendants' carried a bulky paper j package and handed it to the two New i Orleans physicians. That package contained the alcohol j soaked portions of the bodies of Richards and Daniel. Women covered their faces as Dr. Duval told of the atrocities. In speaking of the operation on Daniel, he said: “This occurred before death, because there must have been profuse bleeding from the way the •surroundings of the tissues wore i soaked and discolored with blood,” FOMffiITTEES m if ICED BY HOUSE LEADER Raymond C. Morgan Gives Out Lists for Important Assembly Work. Names of members of four committees of the House of Representatives were announced today by Raymond C. Morgan, speaker. The committees named follow: Banks —Albert J. Wedeking, Dale, I chairman: George F. Ogden, Laketon; | Charles L. Isenberger, La Crosse; Clarence A. Lowe, Waldron: John C. ! Sherwood. Mitchell; Isaac H. Hull, Hanna; Homer L. Traub, Indianapoi lis; Herbert P. Kenney, Xew Albany; | George L. Hoffman. Jasper; John F. 1 Thurston, Summitvlile; Milo J. Thomas, Corunna; Addison Drake, Fairbanks; Frank D. Moland, Crawfordsville. Building and Loan —Frank E. Cline, ; Bargersville, chairman; George W. ! Freeman, Kokomo: Lewis C. Carter, ! Salem; Jacob D. Rich, Brook; Benja/- ; min F. Davis, North Salem; Ralph , Updike, Indianapolis: James D. Butt, Areola; Herbert P. Kenney, New Albany: William H. Larrabee. New Palestine; Frank D. Nolan, Crawfordsville; Clarence T. Custer, Du Pont; William Hart, Peru; Shirley Leveron, Decker. Benevolent and Scientific Institutions—M. C. Murray, Helmes, chairman; Evart A. Addington, Farmland; Thomas B. Brown, Mt. Vernon; Elizabeth Rainey, Indianapolis; Lonzo L. Shull, Sharpsville; John W. Thiel, Gary; Truman G. Murden, Logansport; Charles W. Isenbarger, La Crosse; Willis E. Gill, Cloverdale; George L. Hoffman, Jasper; Isaac Harvey Hull, Hanna; James M. Carlos. Terre Haute and Clarence A. Lowe. Waldron. Ministers —Thomas B. Brown, Mt. Vernon, chairman; Willis E. Gill, Cloverdale; Arthur Johnson, Oakland City; Oliver P. Lafuze, Liberty and James M. Knapp, Hagerstown.

cheeks are fever-red with ment and pain. She starts to Coue a catalog of her numenl aches. Coue says something. lm> oid lady catches only the wora “mind.” “I am not sick In my mind,” she snaps. “I am sick in my body.”* "Ah, but you are sick in the mind.” “You can’t fool me,” she says determinedly. Dear indy, I am not trying to fool you. We are going to help your body through jour mind.” i He “ca-passes” her and she is sura he hasn’t helped her much. Bujfl the next day she is back again. A she smiles at Coue. Next: Bronner describes fellow patients. iff# 1